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The House Of Murphy

Murphy's home
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Nader's Law:
The speed of exit of a civil servant is directly proportional to the quality of his service.

NASA Skylab Rule:
Don't do it if you can't keep it up.

NASA Truisms:
  1. Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.
  2. A consultant is an ordinary person a long way from home.
  3. Statistics are a highly logical and precise method for saying a half-truth inaccurately.

Law of Nations:
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.

Navy Law:
If you can keep your head when all about you others are losing theirs, maybe you just don't understand the situation.

Evvie Nef's Law:
There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.

Nessen's Law:
Secret sources are more credible.

Newman's Law:
Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse.

Newton's Little-known Seventh Law:
A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

Nick the Greek's Law:
All things considered, life is 9-to-5 against.

Nienberg's Law:
Progress is made on alternate Fridays.

Nies's Law:
The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Ninety-ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Nixon's Rule:
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Nobel Effect:
There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected. Furthermore, any such petition is guaranteed page-one treatment in the New York Times.

Noble's Law of Political Imagery:
All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.
Corollary:
Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.

North Carolina Equine Paradox:
Vyarzerzomanimororsezassezanzerareorses?

No. 3 Pencil Principle:
Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.
Corollary: If no one uses something, it isn't needed.

Nursing Mother Principle:
Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.

Nyquist's Theory of Equilibrium:
Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor; equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

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